Barindra Kumar Ghosh | |
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 Barindra Kumar Ghosh | |
| Born | (1880-01-05)5 January 1880 |
| Died | 18 April 1959(1959-04-18) (aged 79) |
| Occupation(s) | Revolutionary, journalist |
| Relatives | Sri Aurobindo (brother) Manmohan Ghose (brother) |
Barindra Kumar Ghosh orBarindra Ghosh, or popularlyBarin Ghosh (5 January 1880 – 18 April 1959), was an Indian revolutionary and journalist. He was one of the founding members ofJugantar Bengali weekly, a revolutionary outfit inBengal. Ghosh was a younger brother ofSri Aurobindo.[2]
Barindra Ghosh was born atCroydon in aBengali Kayastha family, near London on 5 January 1880 although his ancestral village wasKonnagar inHooghly District of present-dayWest Bengal.[3] His father, Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh, was a physician and district surgeon. His mother Swarnalata was the daughterRajnarayan Basu, Indian writer and intellectual of theBengal Renaissance. Revolutionary and a spiritualist in later life,Aurobindo was Barindranath's third elder brother. His second elder brother,Manmohan Ghose, was a scholar of English literature, a poet and professor of English atPresidency College, Calcutta and atDhaka University. He also had an elder sister named Sarojini Ghosh.
Barindranath attended school inDeoghar, and after passing the entrance examination in 1901, joinedPatna College. He received military training inBaroda. During this time, (late 19th century – early 20th century) Barin was influenced by Aurobindo and drawn towards the revolutionary movement.
In 1902, Barin came back to Calcutta (known as Kolkata since 2001), and started organising several revolutionary groups in Bengal with the help ofJatindranath Banerjee. In 1906, he started publishingJugantar, aBengali weekly and a revolutionary organisation namedJugantar soon followed. Jugantar was formed from the inner circle ofAnushilan Samiti and it started preparation for armed militancy activities to oust British from Indian soil.
Barin and Jatindranath Mukherjee aliasBagha Jatin were instrumental in the recruitment of many young revolutionaries from across Bengal. The revolutionaries formed the Maniktala group inManiktala, Kolkata. It was a secret place where they started manufacturing bombs and collected arms and ammunition.
Following the attempted killing of Kingsford by two revolutionariesKhudiram andPrafulla on 30 April 1908, the police intensified its investigation which led to the arrest of Barin and Aurobindo Ghosh on 2 May 1908, along with many of his comrades. The trial (known as theAlipore Bomb Case) initially sentenced Aurobindo Ghosh, Barin Ghosh andUllaskar Datta to death. However, the sentence was reduced to life imprisonment, by DeshbandhuChittaranjan Das and Barin was deported to theCellular Jail inAndaman in 1909 along with other convicts.[4] In theCellular Jail, Barin Ghosh was locked up besideVinayak Damodar Savarkar and he successfully managed to fleeCellular Jail in 1915.[5] But British caught Barin Ghosh again fromPuri afterBalasore Battle with Bagha Jatin.
Barin Ghosh successfully escaped fromCellular Jail and was the only freedom fighter to do so in 1915. He was hiding inPuri during Battle ofBalasore, where Bagha Jatin fought the British. Barin Ghosh was caught again from Puri and sent toCellular Jail in Andamans. He was kept under solitary confinement for 5 long years. During a general amnesty in 1920, Barin was released and returned to Kolkata to start a career in journalism. Soon he left journalism and formed anashram inKolkata. He published his memoirs "The Tale of my Exile – Twelve Years in Andamans".[6] In 1923, he left forPondicherry where his elder brotherAurobindo Ghosh had formed theSri Aurobindo Ashram. He was influenced by Aurobindo towards spirituality andSadhana. Barin returned toKolkata in 1929 and again took up journalism. In 1933 he started an English weekly,The Dawn of India. He was associated with the newspaperThe Statesman, and in 1950, he became the editor of the BengaliDainik Basumati. Around this time he got married. He died on 18 April 1959.[7]
The following are books by Barindra Ghosh:
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